Chalet Village Health and Rehabilitation Center

To go along with its decent overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for its inspection grade. This is far better than its overall score. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection scores. One critical factor is deficiencies. It should be noted that the severity of deficiencies is arguably more important than the number of deficiencies, as some deficiencies can be relatively insignificant. This nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This means that the government inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is always a good sign.

Another one of this facility's higher category grades was in the category of long-term care. In that category, we gave this nursing home a B+. For long-term care residents, the primary goal is to maintain patients' quality of life and keep them safe. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we then analyzed the facility's vaccination records. This facility vaccinated 92.85715 percent of its residents for pneumonia, which is slightly below what we anticipated but still a decent percentage. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. Indeed, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low figure.

Unfortunately, this facility received an F for its short-term care grade. In computing our short-term care ratings, we assess the facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly trained professionals. This area is typically a useful measure of the facility's rehabilitation services. As you might expect, we found that this nursing home offers far less registered nurse and physical therapist hours per patient than the average nursing home. Lastly, we considered the number of residents who were able to return to the community from this facility. This was not a strength for this nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home. At most nursing homes, about half of their patients are able to return home so this is well below average.

This nursing home's weakest category is nursing, which is the last area we assessed. We gave it a lowly F in this category. Even with some solid scores in other areas, this score is still of a concern so we would like to to make sure you are aware. Our nursing score weighs a handful of factors, many of which are based on levels of nurse staffing. This facility offered a meager 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is not a very impressive figure. Finally, we also looked at some nursing quality measures in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home performed well in terms of minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers.